By marcoBauli on

Howdy,

looks like one of the most wanted features of Conent Construction Kit (CCK) are teasers (short presentation text of nodes with eventually a picture, showing on the front page).

Urging this feature as many others for couple of my websites, I digged Drupal.org a bit looking for a solution. Unfortunately, teaser functionality seems still on it's first steps and many different approaches can be found (i write below the interesting nodes i found).



QUESTION: i would be interested in hiring / co-sponsoring a programmer to start developing teaser functionality for CCK, can any expert Drupal coder give a hint on what approach is more reliable/correct/better, so to take the right path and spend well any effort?

POSSIBLE APPROACHES (AFAIK):
63883 - About ContentTemplates (aka Contemplate) module by jjeff.
67922 - Patch for making Excerpt.module and CCK work togheter.
62980 - Patch for making teasers work with CCK by Bèr Kessels.
nicklewis.org/node/844 - CCK teasers via PHPtemplate by Nick Lewis

TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS (tips):
67378 - Using Contemplate and Img_assist modules.
69054 - Using Contemplate and an extra 'teaser' field in CCK content type.


Thank you very much for any advice you might give,

-Marco

Comments

jurriaanroelofs’s picture

jurriaanroelofs commented

maybe this is what ur looking for:

http://nicklewis.org/node/844

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marcoBauli’s picture

marcoBauli commented

thanks for posting peach, i had considered that: this is just one of the possibilities i added in the 'approaches' list above.

Still being "outside" of Drupal, and not having received any positive comment about CCK developers, looked like a temporary hack/solution.

So willing to develop something kind of "definitive", i was wondering about the most correct path to take between the ones listed (or others) to implement on.

robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

Hi kiteatlas,

I need this too, and will be researching it shortly. I'll add any progress or new info as I find it. Thanks for making this list.

- Robert Douglass

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